Entangled Future Im/Mobilities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies

How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

Daniela Atanasova is a doctoral candidate in African studies and a member of the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at Universität Wien. Her research interests include mobilities and migration, women’s history, gender relations and social inequality in Zambia and Africa more broadly.
Romana Bund is a doctoral candidate in cultural and German studies and a member of the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at Universität Wien. Her research explores the mobility and violent histories of human and non-human remains.
Dovaine Buschmann is a scientific project assistant at the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« as well as a doctoral candidate in political science at Universität Wien. Her research interests include mobility studies, financial literacy education policies, feminist political economy and feminist policy analysis.
Rachael Diniega is a climate change, mobilities, and human rights researcher. While a project assistant at the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies«, she has worked towards a Geography PhD at Universität Wien. She has conducted research and worked in sustainable development across North Africa and Central Asia.
Jana Donat is a doctoral candidate in international development with a focus on displacement and relocation at the intersection of development and disaster studies. As a member of the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at Universität Wien, she fostered her approach on regimes of im/mobilities within relocation processes while conducting field research in Uruguay.
Barbara Gfoellner is a PhD candidate in American studies and a member of the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at Universität Wien. She studied English and American studies and French studies at Universität Wien and the Université des Antilles. Her research includes Caribbean and Black studies, poetics, mobility studies, and archipelagic studies.
Nicola Kopf is a PhD candidate in German literary studies and a scientific project assistant at the research platform »Mobile Cultures and Societies« at Universität Wien. Her research interests include discourses on temporality and space, mobility studies, and ecocritical debates.